The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-06-28
PERSONAL.

JOHN DoNAEUE, the Boston sculptor, is making
a life-size statue of John L. Sullivan.
s. G. W. BENJAMIN has written about almos,
everything of the Shah's except his corns.
GEORGE MACDONALD, who has eleven children
is the author of annals of Quiet Neighbor
hood"
THERE is plan afoot to build in Philadelphia
a memorial church in honor of the late Bishor
Stevens.
GEN. BUcKNER, who will probably be the next
Governor of Kentucky was at one time an edi
tor in New Orleans.
MEMORIAL tablets have been put on the houses
in Paris in which Mirabeau died and. Admiral
Coligny was murdered.
REV. DIR. DIX, as rector of Trinity church, New
York, received $50, 900 a year His assistant
priests were paid $1,000
QUEEN VIcToRIAs favorite dish is tapioca
pudding. She is sturdy eater and fair
drinker of claret and red wines.
NJ. SPULLER, French Minister of Fine Arts and
Public Instruction, in his younger days was con-
sidered the best dancer in Paris.
JUDGE HILToN's park at Saratoga now com
prises 1000 acres. 1t is said to be the hand.
soonest private park in the country.
IT Is said that Solicitor McCue, of the Treasu.
ry Department, has made $3.50, 600 in real estate
in Washington in the two years during which he
has been resident of that city.
WILLIAM D. HowEILs says that Tolstoi is the
greatest writer of fiction the world ever saw
This Judgment is the more remarkable, as
Tolstoi does not lay the scene Of his novels in
Boston.
THROUGHOUT ENGLAND and even In Parliament
Mr.. Parnells name is usually spoken as in this
country, with the accent on the second syllable
But he and his closest friends accent 1t properly
on the first syllable.
ALLEN @. THURMAN was recently the guest of
Dbl. ~ 49,
Thurman and Mr.. Winthrop were colleagues in
the Twenty ninth Congress, which held its first
session in December, 1915.
AMONG the veterans of the Mexican war who
celebrated the anniversary Of Pao Alto at San
Francisco recently was c D. O'Kelly, who Is 50
years old, ana Is veteran OF the Texan war of
independence. He was comrade of Sam Hous-
ton and Davy Crockett, and he bore the news of
the fall of the Alamo TO New Orleans.
SECRETARY WHITNEY is the athlete par ercel.
tence of the Cabinet He is an enthusiast in
regard to sports. He is actively pushing a
scheme for the establishment of a large riding
school in Washington. He has recently become
an active member of the Columbia Athletic
Club, the most prominent organization of its
kind at the capital.
GEN. MOSES CLEVELAND, the founder of the
City of Cleveland in 1895, is TO have a bronze
statue in that city. The figure stands seven
feet and six inches high, The General is repre-
sented standing erect with staff and an old
,.oor,phVu s"iNSyvi ieNci III Ms nauuS. he Is
bareheaded, and is dressed in the ordinary out
door gorb Of his time.
VICTOR HUGO relates In his posthumous vol
ume, Chooses Vues, " that when Talleyrand died
the physicians embalmed his body, and having
flushed their task placed on the table the brain
which had originated so many thoughts, had
inspired so many mortals, erected so many
buildings, led two revolutions, and deceived
twenty kings. After they had left n servant
entered and saw the brain. They have forgot
ten something" he exclaimed took the brain
and threw IL into the gutter. "Finis rerumu